To the Vologda Provincial Executive Committee, Metelyev

Copy to Sumner and Eliava

There is no need to travel to Moscow for a report. It is necessary to remain in Vologda and exert all efforts for immediate, merciless suppression of the White Guards, who are clearly preparing treason in Vologda, and for preparing defense.

Refute in writing the lies about Arkhangelsk.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

Written 9 August 1918

First published in 1942

in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript